Hollywood star Steven Seagal visits Chechnya

Russia News.Net - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Hollywood star Steven Seagal spent some time with Ramzan Kadyrov, the former militant fighter who now heads Chechnya, in the latest in a series of visits by Western celebrities to the volatile Russian republic. "The famous American actor, film producer, writer, director and martial arts expert (seventh dan aikido) Steven Seagal visited our republic today (Wednesday)," Kadyrov wrote on ...

Farmer chains employee scalds him with boiling water

Russia News.Net - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

A farmer in south Russia allegedly chained up an employee and scalded him with boiling water, police said. The alleged victim in Krasnodar territory told investigators that he had worked for the farmer for a certain period of time, but when he decided to leave, unsatisfied with his working conditions, his former employer caught him. "The victim says the farmer hunted him down and put him on a ...

Council of Europe Concerned About Russias Human-Rights Record

Russia News.Net - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

MOSCOW Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary general of the Council of Europe, has told President Vladimir Putin that the human rights body is concerned about Russia's law requiring non-governmental organizations to register as foreign agents. Jagland said Europe will watch how the Kremlin implements the law that went in effect last November, a measure requiring non-governmental organizations ...

Irans n-power plant to be launched shortly Russian agency

Russia News.Net - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Iran's first nuclear power plant in Bushehr could start working "shortly", Xinhua reported Wednesday, quoting Russia's state atomic energy agency Rosatom. "I have never announced the exact timing because our absolute priority is safety and the final decision will be made by the customer," Rosatom chief Sergei Kirienko told reporters. He added that Rosatom completely understands Iran's concerns ...

Sir Paul McCartneys protests fail to help Pussy Riot

The Telegraph - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Sir Paul called for Alyokhina's release on his website, as well as writing letters to the judge adding his voice to a growing list of celebrities who say the punishment of members of Pussy Riot was ...

No foreign movies to be shown on Russia’s Public Television - says PRT chief Lysenko

Itar Tass - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

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Ecuador satellite collides with Russian space junk

Channel News Asia - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

A small Ecuadoran satellite collided in orbit with the remains of a Russian rocket, but it is too soon to know how much damage it might have sustained, Quito's space agency said ...

Crimean Tatars Rally to Expel Russian Consul

RIA Novosti - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

SIMFEROPOL, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – About 300 people, mostly Crimean Tatars, are rallying outside the Russian Consulate in the Ukrainian city of Simferopol, demanding that the Russian Consul there be stripped of diplomatic status and declared persona non grata. The protests broke out after Russian Consul Vladimir Andreyev criticized a movie about the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars to ...

Russia Will Avoid Recession This Year – Shuvalov

RIA Novosti - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is demonstrating "insufficient" economic growth rates but the country will be able to avoid even a technical recession this year, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Thursday. "We consider GDP growth of 2 to 3 percent to be insufficient for us," Shuvalov said, but added that "there will be no recession this ...

Russian court denies parole for punk group

Fox News - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

In this Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Alekhina went on hunger strike May 22, 2013, in protest at not being allowed to attend her own parole hearing in Perm ...

Tanzania Makes $206 Million Atomic Tax Claim

The Moscow Times - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Tanzania is demanding almost $206 million in taxes from Russian state uranium company ARMZ, which has won a license to build the East African country's first uranium mine, the energy minister said on Thursday. Atomredmetzoloto, or ARMZ is the mining arm of Rosatom, which also builds nuclear reactors. Tanzania's tax claim relates to the Mkuju River project in southern Tanzania, which ...

Luxoft Files for IPO in New York

The Moscow Times - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Russian software developer Luxoft has filed for an initial public offering in New York under the ticker LXFT. According to a regulatory filing, the company is hoping to raise as much as $80 million. The amount, however, may change in the future. Luxoft's parent company, IBS Group, chose UBS, Credit Suisse Group, JPMorgan Chase & ...

Audi Launch Shows Promise of Premium Segment

The Moscow Times - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Daniel Kolodin / For MT Audi executives presenting a new entrant on the growing premium car market in Russia on Thursday. Audi on Thursday presented a new premium model in the country as sales of this class of cars are bucking the downward trend on the domestic auto market. Sales of the new A3 sedan will begin toward the end of September in a bid to win over clients that might be ...

Paul McCartney supports Pussy Riot in letter to Russian judge

CBS News - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

posted online , McCartney asks for parole to be granted to Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, currently serving two-year sentences for an impromptu protest in Moscow's main cathedral. McCartney wrote that he was making the request "in a spirit of friendship for my many Russian acquaintances who, like me, believe in treating people - all people, with compassion and ...

ИК Велес Капитал В четверг российский рынок оказался под давлением

RBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

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Rietumu В ближайшие дни цены на нефть Brent могут начать тестирование уровня 9876 долл.

RBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

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RBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

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RBC - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

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Alexander Lebedev to call martial arts expert to testify

The Telegraph - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev is to call a martial arts expert to testify in his hooliganism trial in an attempt to prove he did not hit a property tycoon with serious blows during a TV ...

Estonian government approves of draft border treaty with Russia

Itar Tass - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

TALLINN, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Estonia’s Cabinet of Ministers on Thursday approved of a draft border treaty with Russia, the government’s press-service has ...

Russia to evacuate its North Pole - 40 station because of decaying ice

Itar Tass - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

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Bolotnaya case continues Russian police search homes of more opposition activists

RT - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Russia Russian police have searched the homes of two opposition activists as part of an investigation into the criminal case against protesters allegedly involved in unrest during the anti-Kremlin rally on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on May 6 last year. Early Thursday, after law enforcers searched the home of Vasily Kuzmin - the head of the Moscow branch of the Left Front movement - he was ...